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3 lights in the windows

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 21, 2020 - 2:43pm

In the Icon's holiday nighttime window shopping walk in downtown Bluffton, we came across three brightly-lighted trees in windows facing Main Street in Bluffton High School.

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Main Street Bluffton 1958-59

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 21, 2020 - 11:46am

Did you know that in 1958-59 there was a hotel on the second floor of what is today Reichenbach Steiner CPA?

That's where the "Hotel" sign hangs in this Main Street photo from six decades ago.

We'll allow your mind to wonder up and down Main Street as you check out this photo.

It looks like a 1955 Mercury is parked along the street. We'll consider that every vehicle in the photo was a V-8 lead-gas-only gas gussler.

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Historical Bluffton
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Letter from Mayor Johnson: It has been a very challenging and interesting year

2021 is right around the corner and the village is optimistic and hopeful that we will continue to make Bluffton successful and prosperous.
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 21, 2020 - 9:35am

To each and every one of you in the Village of Bluffton:

Here we are almost in the end of 2020. It has been a very challenging and interesting year to say the least. No matter what each of us faced in our personal lives or professionals lives, basically covid-19 consumed our lives, for the majority of 2020. I believe I can speak for most, to say this was something never experienced in our lifetime, and never want to experience again.

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Letters
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Watch the "Great Conjunction" tonight

Jupiter and Saturn will be easy to see with the unaided eye by looking toward the southwest just after sunset
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 21, 2020 - 8:43am

FROM NASA - Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat tonight, Dec. 21.

What has become known popularly as the “Christmas Star” is an especially vibrant planetary conjunction easily visible in the evening sky over the next two weeks as the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn come together, culminating on the night of Monday, Dec. 21.

In 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the night sky, discovering the four moons of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

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Regional news
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Special council meeting Monday

To consider request for temporary vestibule structure at 133 N. Main
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 20, 2020 - 8:45pm

A special council meeting will take place to consider a request for a license to install a temporary vestibule structure onto the sidewalk at Luke's, 133 N. Main St.

The meeting is at 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 21, via Zoom. Contact Jesse Blackburn at [email protected] for the Zoom invitation.

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Public Meetings
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Forgotten Bluffton's "firsts"

The first motorized vehicle, radio, airplane, piped water and electricity in a house
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 20, 2020 - 2:47pm

Ever wonder who owned the first motorized vehicle in Bluffton? Or, who had the first radio?

How about, who had the first running water hookup, electicity in a house? And, when was the first airplane spotted over Bluffton?

These obscure fact have answers. For the record, here goes:
• Frank Scott, a Bluffton banker, owned the first automobile in Bluffton. The exact date of the purchase is not known, but when he traded it in on his second car in 1904, it was mention in the Bluffton News of his having owned a car for “sometime now."

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